HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Food Security, Social Exclusion, Targeted Advertising

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

What is discrimination: conceptualized broadly, discrimination refers to all means of expressing and institutionalizing social relationships of dominance and oppression. Perpetrators: the state and its institutions (ranging from law courts to public schools, non-state entities (private-sector employers, private schools, religious organizations) Forms of discrimination: relational/ interpersonal (between individuals, epistemic (knowledge creation, dominance, and discourse) Structural (societal norms, beliefs that foster discrimination: relational/interpersonal (between individuals, epistemic (knowledge creation, dominance and discourse) Indirectly, by inference, at the individual level: directly, using measures of self-reported discrimination, at individual level, at the population level (neighbourhood segregation and access to care) Inadequate access to health insurance and health-care facilities and substandard medical treatment due to implicit or explicit racial bias or discrimination: state-sanctioned violence and ecological degradation. Include police violence that leads to injury or death: alienation from property/land that affects food security. Question of the week: there are multiple pathways through which racism harms health.